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TillamookThu, 01 Dec 2016 20:55:20 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Mom Bloggers Get Cookin’ in Orange Countyhttps://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/mom-bloggers-get-cookin-in-orange-county/
https://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/mom-bloggers-get-cookin-in-orange-county/#respondTue, 29 Mar 2011 23:17:08 +0000http://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/?p=1698What a perfect day for a grilled cheese cook-off – Mom blogger style! Tillamook and the Loaf Love Tour invited local Orange County and Los Angeles Mom bloggers, as well as their families, for a special day of Loaf Love family fun on March 27th. The day included face painting, balloon animals, frisbee, a special […]

]]>What a perfect day for a grilled cheese cook-off – Mom blogger style!

Got my grilled cheese and a toy - what more do I need?

Tillamook and the Loaf Love Tour invited local Orange County and Los Angeles Mom bloggers, as well as their families, for a special day of Loaf Love family fun on March 27th. The day included face painting, balloon animals, frisbee, a special appearance from Loafy (who was a big hit with the kids!), and a good old-fashioned grilled cheese competition.

The kids battle Loafy (good thing those swords are made of balloons!)

The stakes were high (Grand Prize – a Tillamook Cookbook and a year’s supply of Tillamook Cheese) and the competition was fierce (10 of the OC’s top Mom Blogs) this weekend at Costa Mesa’s Tewinkle Park. Moms brought reinforcements (husbands, little ones, and even grandparents) to help them choose a variety of accoutrements (asparagus, Tillamook Pepper Jack, Tillamook Medium Cheddar, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, banana peppers, zucchini, bell peppers, Tillamook Sharp Cheddar, pesto, bacon…) that combine perfectly to create the tastiest grilled cheese sandwiches. And boy oh boy, did these families deliver!

The ingredients table - getting creative!

Top winners:

Best Teamwork – Shelby Barone from OCMoms.com and her adorable family won for the variety of sandwiches they created such as “Tomato Love”, “Trees of Love”, “Surprise Sandwich” and the “Plain Jane”.

Best Teamwork Award - Shelby's family members

Most Creative – Priscilla Willis from She’s Cookin’ won for her inspired sandwich the “Spring Fever”.

Most Creative Award Winner

Best overall – This coveted prize went to Kristen Howerton of Rage Against the MiniVan. Kristen has her husband Mark to thank for the year’s supply of Tillamook Cheese. The Howerton family won the prize with his “So-Cal Delight”. They also get the prize for most excited to receive a prize!

]]>https://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/mom-bloggers-get-cookin-in-orange-county/feed/0Sharing the Loaf Love in the OChttps://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/sharing-the-loaf-love-in-the-oc/
https://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/sharing-the-loaf-love-in-the-oc/#respondThu, 10 Mar 2011 16:00:47 +0000http://www.tillamook.com/community/blog/?p=1476Loaf Love Pyramid For the record, our “Day of Loaf” in the Orange County area has been by far one of my favorite days on the Loaf Love Tour… so far, at least! We started the day early by unloading the Tillamook Baby Loaf buses and driving to Angel Stadium (which I’ve become very familiar with since my […]

For the record, our “Day of Loaf” in the Orange County area has been by far one of my favorite days on the Loaf Love Tour… so far, at least! We started the day early by unloading the Tillamook Baby Loaf buses and driving to Angel Stadium (which I’ve become very familiar with since my daily running trail loops around the stadium). We took some pictures and video of the buses in front of the stadium, then we wanted to do some group photos. I got super excited and talked the team into doing a pyramid photo! Lucky for us, our Brand Manager Susan was a college cheerleader so she was able to instruct us on how to properly execute ‘The Loaf Love Pyramid.’

After we took some cheesy photos around town, we headed out to Huntington Beach. The Baby Loaf bus caravan certainly made lots of heads turn as we drove around the beach area. Talk about feeling like a big deal! It’s not every day you see groups of people shuffling through their bags to find their cameras and phones to snap photos of you driving… I loved it! We parked our buses and enjoyed a team lunch at Wahoo’s Fish Taco’s (a recommendation given to us by one of our Twitter followers – thanks to them)! I enjoyed my ninth order of fish tacos since the tour began. I just can’t get enough of them. After lunch and pictures, we cruised down to Newport Beach, all the while hearing honks from smiling drivers and loud hollers from bystanders informing us how much they love Tillamook Cheese.

Newport Beach was awesome. I may be a little biased since I’m from Newport, OR and naturally felt connected to this little coastal community. People came up to us and shared their Tillamook stories and truly seemed so happy to see us down in their neck of the woods! I love hearing how much people love Tillamook and seeing the excitement in them when they talk about their experiences with our product. It’s just another reminder to me of how lucky and happy I am to be a Tillamook Cheese Loaf Love Tour Brand Ambassador!